Great Salt Lake Birding

[Hughjangillilan at aol dot com]

Gary Grubb and I spent a pleasant day birding along the south shore of the 
Great Salt Lake Friday and easily picked up a list of about 35 species but 
interestingly, no raptors, not even a Kestrel.  Willets, Black-necked Stilts, 
and Caspian Terns are back as well as some of the most deep orange headed 
Yellow-headed Blackbirds we have ever seen.  In one scope view we saw lined 
up in a tight row a Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal and Cinnamon Teal.  
Upon returning home I learned that my daughter's home up in the Avenues in 
SLC was without power this afternoon because a Turkey Vulture had tangled
with a local transformer and gave up its life to Ready Kilowatt.  Hugh 
Gillilan
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